Harman Kardon SC3 Owners Manual - Page 5

BASS AND TREBLE TONE CONTROLS The BASS and TREBLE tone controls on your receiver provide the full range of tonal adjustment necessary for stereo high fidelity listening. The tone control range is considerable and can adequately adjust the low and high frequencies in accordance with your listening preference, speaker characteristics and room acoustics. FUNCTION SELECTOR SWITCH The FUNCTION SELECTOR switch selects the desired type of program source. The switch on the SC4 has six switching positions as follows. 1. PHONO MONO. This position selects your record player, for monophonic playback and includes RIAA equalization. 2. PHONO STEREO. This position selects your record player, for stereophonic playback and includes RIAA equalization. 3. TAPE AMP/AUX. This position selects any high level equipment, such as the output of your television set or any other high level signal which is connected to the AUX receptacles on the rear of the receiver. 4. FM MONO. In this position you can listen to stereophonic broadcasts monophonically. Monophonic programs will appear unchanged. 5. FM STEREOMATIC. This is the normal listening position for all monophonic and stereophonic FM Broadcasts. In this position the stereo indicator light and the STEREOMATIC switch ing circuit built into your receiver are operative. STEREO HEADPHONE RECEPTACLE The stereo headphone receptacle located on the front panel will accept any headphone with any impedance rating. The headphone receptacle is "on" at all times. If you wish to listen to the headphones alone, see the paragraph on "SPEAKER SWITCH". CONTOUR SWITCH One of the limitations of human hearing is its tendency to lose sensitivity to the very low pitched sounds as the program sound level is reduced. It is this characteristic (known as the FletcherMunson effect) which causes one to play music programs at high listening levels in order to experience the full rich tone available from fine modern recordings. The Harman-Kardon CONTOUR switch compensates for this effect; thereby eliminating high listening levels as a requisite for full enjoyment of reproduced music. For warm, full-bodied reproduction at low listening levels, throw the CONTOUR switch "IN". At high levels, the contour switch has no effect. SPEAKER SWITCH The speaker switch is used to defeat the speakers while you are listening to the stereo headphones. To defeat the speakers, throw the switch to the "off" position. FUNCTION SELECTOR SWITCH FRONT PANEL ESCUTCHEON DIAL SCALE STEREO INDICATOR TUNING KNOB TAPE d P/AUX PHONO STEREO' P140NO MONO FM MONO FM STEREOMATIC FM 8 90 9Z 94 96 90 100IT 104106 108 MC 01 1 I I I0I I I I201 1 I 1301 1 1 14011 1 1501 1 1 1801 1 I 1701 1 1 1 001 1 1 1901 1 1 1100 FM STEREO normal.' kardon STRATOPHONIC MUSIC SYSTEM OFF VOLUME VOLUME CONTROL & POWER SWITCH BALANCE CONTROL BALANCE BASS CONTROL. BASS TREBLE CONTROL 5 TREBLE CONTOUR SWITCH TUNING IN OUT OUT CONTOUR IN SPEAKERS SPEAKER SWITCH STEREO HEADPHONE RECEPTACLE